Toy bank.



PATENTED SEPT. 27, 1904.

A. FONTS.

TOY BANK.

APPLICATION FILED 001'. 22, 1903.

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APPLIOATION FILED 001'.22,19o s. N0 MODEL.

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WITNESSES: I IN VE N TOR aZrZuraZEnt-r Patented September 27, 1904.

ARTURO FONTS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

'TOY BANK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 771,051, dated September 27, 1904. Application filed October 22, 1903. Serial No. 178,128. (No model.)

useful improvements in toy banks, safes, or

the like.

In carrying out my present invention 1 have particularly in view the provision of an arti cle such as above referred to the parts of which are so correlated and arranged that when once a coin has been deposited in the bank it will be impossible to remove the same without unlocking a door provided for the purpose or destroying the bank.

A further object of my invention is to provide a bank which shall embody the essential and desirable features of neatness, compactness, simplicity, and strength.

With the above-cited objects and others of a similar nature in view this invention consists in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, as is hereinafter described in this specification, delineated in the accompanying drawings, and set forth in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure l is aperspective view of a bank or safe embodying my improvements, a portion of the walls thereof being broken away to show the interior construction. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional View taken through a bank or safe embodying my improvements substantially on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical sectional view of the same, taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view taken through a bank which is inverted or turned upside down, said View illustrating the position of the coin-detaining flap when arranged to prevent the removal of coins through the depositing slot or aperture; and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a portion of the bank in which is arranged the door provided for the removal of the coin from the bank.

Referring now to the accompanying drawings in detail, 5 designates the main body portion or chamber in the bank, which may be of any suitable shape or size, although I prefer to make it of substantially the character shown in Fig. 1. The body 5 is provided at its lower end with a door 6, hinged at 7 and provided with a lock 8, said door being provided for the purpose of removing the money or the contents of the bank when desired.

Near the top of the bank and in one side thereof I form a slot or opening 9, through which a coin, bill, or the like is designed to be inserted. As the coin or bill is pushed through the slot it drops upon a downwardlyinclined platform 10, rigidly secured to the side walls of the box forming the body portion, said platform being in the nature of a relatively long thin strip or sheet, and its lower end portion 12 is curved or turned slightly downward, so that the coin or the like after traveling down the strip will drop over said curved end and onto the deflectingshelf 13, secured about centrally of the side of the bank adjacent to the curved end of the platform. This construction will be clearly seen by reference to Fig. 2.

In order to prevent the removal of the contents of the bank by unauthorized persons, I have provided an improved coin-detaining fiap, which is in the nature of a rectangular strip 14, hinged to a rod 15, extending transversely of the box portion of the bank and said rod lying directly beneath the platform 10 in such manner that said platform will normally rest upon the rod. Cast or formed upon the strip 14 is a weight 16, the purpose of this weight being that when the bank is turned upside down. as is shown in Fig. 4, said weight will cause the flap to fall over against the shelf 18, effectively closing the outlet for the coin, so that in case an instrument should be inserted through the slot 9 it will be impossible to touch the coin and cause it to pass through the opening, as this will be prevented both by the position of the platform 10 and by the coin-detaining flap 14. In

order to limit the movement of the flap 1 L backward upon its hinge, I have secured at opposite sides of the bank-walls the stoppingblocks 17 17, the detaining-flap normally lying against these blocks when the bank is in its upright position.

It will be observed that Ihave provided an exceedingly simple yet effective means for preventing persons from tampering with the contents of the bank or from removing money therefrom by inverting the bank and inserting an instrument, such as a knife or the like, therein, and while I have herein shown and described one preferred or particular embodiment of my invention it will of course be understood that I do not confine myself to all of the precise details of construction, as there may be slight modifications and variations made in some respects without departing from the spirit of the invention or sacrificing any of the advantages thereof.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Iatent 1. A bank comprising a body portion having an opening for the insertion of a coin, a door for the removal of the coin, a downwardly-inclined platform arranged within the body portion adjacent to the opening, said platform having a curved free end portion, a rigid coin-deflecting shelf secured to one of the interior sides of the body portion beneath the curved end of the platform, and a coindetaining flap hinged to the under side of the platform above the curved end portionthereof.

2. A bank comprising a body portion having an opening for the insertion of a coin or the like, a door for the removal of said coin, a rigid platform fixedly mounted within the body portion and having a downwardlycurved end portion, a coin-deflecting shelf rigidly secured to the body portion adjacent to but beneath the platform, a weighted coindetaining flap pivotally secured to the under side of the platform and designed when the bank is inverted to move upon its pivot into contact with the shelf, and stops for limiting the movement of the flap away from the coindeflecting shelf.

3. A bank comprising a body portion having an opening for the insertion of a coin, a downwardly inclined platform within the body portion adjacent to said opening, a coindetaining flap hinged to'the under side of said platform near but above the bottom thereof, a weight upon said flap, and stops for limiting the movement of the flap.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ARTURO FONTS.

Witnesses:

R. B. CAVANAGH, JNo. M. BITTER. 

